on home

Review of 'on home' by Maggie McLaughlin

On Home, a collection of poetry by Donna Allard, offers an enlightening journey into her poetically perceived world as she so richly shares her stories of simply being in the world she knows and understands so well. Each poem stands as a golden thread radiating its own special light. This book is a celebration of the wonderful inter-connectivity of all that is familiar and part of this poet’s world. Her storied poems are alive with a strong sense of place through her association with family, her coastal home and community, its history and the ways of its people.  Nature sets the scene and is palpably present: you smell the salty air, you see the flow of the river and the ocean tides, days shift from light to darkness, and seasons move from warmth to cold. And meanwhile, this poet gazes upward in awe and wonder at the mysteries of the sun, the moon, and the stars overhead in the sky above her, in the land where she lives, her home.  Maggie McLaughlin Author, A Healing Gift